Alabama Trail Days

“Can't remember how to do a link.

http://www.alabamatrail.com/pages/9/index.htm”

“Alabama Trail Days
Cool looking picture at the top!
You going Rabbitman?”

“probably”

“StoveStomper,
I didn't register, I'm just probably going to show up. Surely they will let me register there.”

“I'll be out of town that weekend. I'd like to go though. It's pretty funny that at the bottom of the page it gives hotel information. Pitch a dang tent.”

“Map

Camping is at the State Park, $19 a night I think. Might be interesting. If I'm not having tooth problems, I might go.”

“just moving it to the top”

“Already planning on doing some camping with my family next weekend...maybe next year!”

“Looking like a slim chance for me also. :(”

“I would like to go and take the kids, but Andalusia is a long damn way down state in Lower Alabama.”

“It's at Tannehill chili. That's between Gods Country and Birmingham along I-20/59. It's maybe 30 minutes SW of B'ham.”

“Thanks, dayhiker. I just looked at the flyer briefly, saw the address for the Trail Society and came to the wrong conclusion.

Well, now I guess I need to look at weather. I have the kids this weekend. Let's see, Parsons back to Marion is about the same as Parsons to Decatur, AL.

So, I would really have that much travel involved.”

“It would just be three days of endless droning on and on about how they want to hook the Pinhoti up to the AT, anyway. The AHTS is seriously concentrated on that, to the detriment of hiking trails in North Alabama.

You'll notice as you peruse the site that there's nothing about the Sipsey, or the Walls of Jericho purchase, although they do talk about the purchase of 2000 acres of swampland in south Alabama for use in hooking up the Pinhoti to the Florida Trail as part of the ECT.

If I had the time, I'd start up an organization for North Alabama, but I don't have the time.”

“I agree bit, if you read the hiking Alabama website, it's all about the Pinhoti. To me, Sipsey is the jewel of the State, but the Pinhoti gets all the pub. That's probably for the better anyway.”

“Dayhiker, I didn't read your comment until today.

You're right about the Sipsey, it's probably best that few people know about it. It will stay in better shape because of that.

I do wish there was some more backpacking in North Alabama though. The Sipsey is pretty much it, they don't allow backcountry camping in any of the state parks.

Oh well, there's always the South Cumberland up in Tennessee.”

“bit - I know a guy that goes to Buck's Pocket a good bit and stealth camps. I'd like to do the same at a particular part of Guntersville, but have never had the cahones to actually do it.”

“You could stealth camp at Monte Sano up here, my brother has done it, and I've seen plenty of sign that other people have done it. You'd just have to park your car somewhere besides in the park.”

“That's one reason I haven't tried it at the particular place I have in mind at Guntersville. It would be too obvious what was going on. The place I'm talking about is in the boundary of the sp, but the parking area is a mile or more before you exit in the main sp area.”

“Bad Boys, Bad Boys, What ya gonna do, what ya gonna do when they come for you....... ;-)”

“Disappear into the woods where the rangers won't go, lol...

They had to do a "rescue" a couple years ago in Monte Sano. Basically, a couple of kids (12yrolds, I think) stayed on the trails in the park after dark, lost their way (they were in the Sinks, and you could lose the trail there pretty easily after dark) and just hunkered down. The rangers hopped on their golf cart and drove down to the general area, then (oh woe is them!) had to get off of it and hike down to sinks area, where they found the two kids.

If you hiked back behind Logan Point and set up a nice stealth camp there (no fire, natch) they'd never find you or even know you were there.”